Change entity admin pages to use Views [#1434224]

If we could accomplish this, it would create a much more flexible administration for entities (exposed filters, show different properties and fields, show related entities, etc). edmund.kwok already created a patch to have edit, view and delete links available to views (#1424738: Views integration: Add view, edit, delete link). And I think the rest of the functionality currently offered can be simulated with a module like VBO.

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Comment #1

acrazyanimal commented 11 February 2012 at 03:26

Interesting ... I know the latest dev of VBO includes a generic 'modify entity values' action that was just committed recently. Also, commerce is again a decent model for use of views in its admin. Many of their admin pages are also views.

It would definitely make it more flexible.

Comment #2

fmizzell commented 13 February 2012 at 19:22

Entity API has the same issue: #1437280: Provide a admin ui controller that uses views for the overview tables.

Comment #3

acrazyanimal commented 27 May 2012 at 22:04

Thinking about this again. I'm not sure how it would be accomplished other then having a new default view added for every new entity type and bundle that are added. Could be messy... but awesome. When I get a chance I'll play around.

Comment #4

fmizzell commented 29 May 2012 at 18:16

I already have some code that attempts to do this in the page_manager branch, but I think I was going it at it the wrong way. You are welcome to look at that code, but it would definitively would be great to give users the option to use a simple user interface, or a view that they can modify, and use other nice feature like views bulk operations etc.